[SOLVED] Suggestion about restore

[Valerio Pachera]

Hi all, I have a production server with Proxmox 5.1-43.
I wish to resotre a guest the backup of yesterday but I don't want to remove the originale guest.
The origina guest has to continue rugnning.
I added and nfs storage where I can restore the backup.
May the restore cause some problems, like creating the same network card (with the same mac)?
Please, advice me about any side effect on that operation.

Thank you.

 

[Vasu Sreekumar]

Create a new CT/KVM then restore backup to it.
Then before starting it remove and add network device. It will get a new MAC.
With same MAC it will not work.

 

[jerry]

Create a new CT/KVM then restore backup to it.

When you create new virtual machine, you will not see backup of other vm.
The one and only way to restore existing vm (without removing it) to the new one is to restore from nfs storage contents view.

Then before starting it remove and add network device. It will get a new MAC.
With same MAC it will not work.

You don't have to remove NIC - change the MAC address only.

 

[Vasu Sreekumar]

You can create new guest and restore any other guest backup, there is no issue. I do it all the time. I have 25 live nodes with atleast 10 guests each.

Rather than editing MAC and making mistake, it is better to delete network device and add it. That is what i do when i clone a guest.

 

[jerry]

What is the point of restoring vm to newly created vm if restoring process can create vm itself? Parameters?

Yeah, your restoring policy is safer but also one step longer.

 

[Vasu Sreekumar]

When you create new virtual machine, you will not see backup of other vm.

Are you sure about this?

I was just giving an way to achieve what Valerio needs, which I have tried and worked for me. If you have another way answer to him,

 

[jerry]

I mean:
- If you browse backup from vm menu you will see only backups of this vm.
- If you browse contents of storage (VZ dump) device you will see all of backups.

Vasu, your answer is apparently proper one.

 

[Valerio Pachera]

Thank you all for your suggestions.
The only thing to be aware of i removing and recreating the network card (I dind't tested it).
If I change the mac address, winows will anyway start with a configured nic (tested).